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I have been in love with A Riot of Color’s “Octopus’s Garden” since the first time I saw it. It is very aptly named, and brought to mind the ocean. This cowl came about when I picked up “Waterworks” for a different design, but the colorways decided they wanted to play together. With their watery names, it only makes sense that they created a se...

What is a distaff? It holds wool as you spin. This cuff is intended to hold fiber away from the spindle so it doesn’t get tangled, while keeping a quantity at the ready so you don’t need to keep attaching several small bits of fiber.

This recipe is intended to give you all the information you need to knit a tube sock with any yarn for any size foot (even adult sizes). There are formulas to put your own information into, ie you will need to do a little math. This information is free.

One day, I was looking at a cake of yarn on my desk. I looked away, but kept looking again and again. I was obsessed with the diamond pattern the yarn made overlapping itself. I started sketching, and my Cake socks followed.

This pattern was designed to use a magic ball - many leftover bits of yarn tied together to make a cake of yarn. These yarns are striped to break up the colors and cause easy color transitions from one end of the s(c)hawl to the other.

I crocheted an owl for a friend of mine. My son saw it and wanted it. When I told him it was for someone else, he was quite disappointed. I asked him if he would like his own own and he emphatically agreed. I let him pick the yarn from my stash, and thus G’s Great Owl was born.